Personal Health Device Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Health Care Devices. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0-ballot2 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/phd/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Appendix

Page standards status: Informative

Dependencies

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.2.0 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Mon, Feb 10, 2025 21:45+1100+11:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.pocd#0.3.0 ImplementationGuide for Point-of-Care Devices (PoCD), such as those typically found in a hospital care setting (e.g., physiological monitors, infusion pumps, ventilators, pulse-oximeters, etc.). (built Sat, Aug 14, 2021 20:37+0000+00:00)

Cross Version Analysis

This is an R4 IG. None of the features it uses are changed in R4B, so it can be used as is with R4B} systems. Packages for both R4 (hl7.fhir.uv.phd.r4) and R4B (hl7.fhir.uv.phd.r4b) are available.

Global Profiles

There are no Global profiles defined

IP Statements

This publication includes IP covered under the following statements.

• IEEE maintains copyright on all content from IEEE 11073 standards. All rights reserved. Implementers should obtain official copies of all applicable standards documents directly from IEEE. The inclusion of IEEE 11073 terminology codes and definitions in HL7 messages and related implementation guides is permitted under existing agreements. For permission regarding any other usage, please contact IEEE at copyrights@ieee.org.
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  • ISO/IEEE 11073 Medical Device Communication Nomenclature: ASN1ToHL7, Bundle/bundle-continuousnonin... Show 45 more, Bundle/bundle-example-1, Device/phd-00601900010E9234.F45EABA80832, Device/phd-711000FEFF5F49B0.B0495F001071, Device/phd-74E8FFFEFF051C00.001C05FFE874, Device/phg-ecde3d4e58532d31.000000000000, Device/phg-example, DeviceMetric/bp-devicemetric-example, DeviceTypes11073MDC, MDCClockResolutionTypes, MDCClockTypes, MDCDeviceVersionTypes, MDCTimeSyncMethods, MDCValueSet, MDCnotObject, MDCobject, Observation/bits-observation, Observation/bpm-status, Observation/coin-20181119174911, Observation/coin-20181119202022, Observation/coin-example-1, Observation/coin-example-timefault, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure-no-mean, Observation/compound-observation-glucose, Observation/glucose-observation, Observation/meal-context-observation, Observation/numeric-observation-not-a-number, Observation/numeric-spo2-alarm, Observation/numeric-spotnumeric, Observation/rtsa-example, Observation/rtsa-example-2, Observation/stringenum-1234, Observation/temperature-observation, PhdBaseObservation, PhdBitsEnumerationObservation, PhdCodedEnumerationObservation, PhdCoincidentTimeStampObservation, PhdCompoundNumericObservation, PhdCompoundObservation, PhdDevice, PhdNumericObservation, PhdRtsaObservation, PhdStringObservation, PhgDevice and SimpleAlerting
• The UCUM codes, UCUM table (regardless of format), and UCUM Specification are copyright 1999-2009, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Unified Codes for Units of Measures (UCUM) Organization. All rights reserved. https://ucum.org/trac/wiki/TermsOfUse
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  • Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM): Bundle/bundle-continuousnonin, Bundle/bundle-example-1... Show 10 more, Device/phd-74E8FFFEFF051C00.001C05FFE874, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure-no-mean, Observation/compound-observation-glucose, Observation/glucose-observation, Observation/numeric-spo2-alarm, Observation/numeric-spotnumeric, Observation/rtsa-example, Observation/rtsa-example-2 and Observation/temperature-observation
• This material contains content from LOINC. LOINC is copyright © 1995-2020, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) Committee and is available at no cost under the license. LOINC® is a registered United States trademark of Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
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  • LOINC: Bundle/bundle-continuousnonin, Bundle/bundle-example-1... Show 5 more, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure-no-mean, Observation/numeric-spo2-alarm, Observation/numeric-spotnumeric and Observation/temperature-observation
• This material derives from the HL7 Terminology (THO). THO is copyright ©1989+ Health Level Seven International and is made available under the CC0 designation. For more licensing information see: https://terminology.hl7.org/license.html
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  • DataAbsentReason: Bundle/bundle-continuousnonin, Observation/coin-example-timefault... Show 7 more, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure-no-mean, Observation/numeric-observation-not-a-number, PhdBaseObservation, PhdBitsEnumerationObservation, PhdCoincidentTimeStampObservation, PhdCompoundNumericObservation and PhdCompoundObservation
  • Observation Category Codes: Bundle/bundle-continuousnonin, Bundle/bundle-example-1... Show 5 more, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure, Observation/compound-numeric-blood-pressure-no-mean, Observation/numeric-spo2-alarm, Observation/numeric-spotnumeric and Observation/temperature-observation
  • identifierType: Bundle/bundle-example-1, Patient/patientExample-1, Patient/patientExample-2 and PhdPatient

Github

The source for this Implementation Guide is available on HL7 GitHub.

Downloads

Package File

The following package file includes an NPM package file used by many of the FHIR tools. It contains all the value sets, profiles, extensions, list of pages and urls in the IG, etc defined as part of this version of the Implementation Guides. This file should be the first choice whenever generating any implementation artifacts since it contains all of the rules about what makes the profiles valid. Implementers will still need to be familiar with the content of the specification and profiles that apply in order to make a conformant implementation. See the overview on validating FHIR profiles and resources:

• Package

Examples

All the examples that are used in this Implementation Guide available for download:

• XML
• JSON

Downloadable Copy of Entire Specification

A downloadable version of this IG is available so it can be hosted locally:

• Downloadable Copy

Issues

Reported issues can be found on the HL7 FHIR PHD JIRA Dashboard. New issues can be reported there as well.

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